Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-31
The Afternoon Game.

In the afternoon the team played in Bridge port The team, accompanied by good sized crowd of admirers, left on the 1:30 train.
 Long before-at least two hours-the time for the commencement of the game people began to make their way to the Athletic Park in West Stratford. The New Haven team dressed on the grounds, and shortly past o'clock made their appearance on the dis mond. They were greeted with cheers from the large crowd.
 The game was more one-siaed for Bridge port than the morning game was for New Haven. Over three thousand people saw the Bridgeports bat Lautenbach virtually out of slugging off his pitching in good form.
 When Manager Kelly appeared and walked in front of the grand stand to the players bench he was applauded, as this was his first appearance in Bridgeport as manager of the New Haven team.
 The Bridgeports smiled when they heard that Lautenbach was to be put in the box. In fact, everybody smiled. The crowd from New Haven which went down to cheer the boys on to victory did not have anything to do. They made one cheer in the first in- ming, but the Bridgeport players effectually soothed them by making nine runs in this in- ming. The game was virtually settled in think so, for they kept on piling up runs, and if it had not been for some phenomenal work on the part of his support in the field the score would have been 0 great deal larger.
 Can Lautenbach pitch? Every New Havener who saw the game yesterday said in one voice, NO.
 When Captain Troy said few days ago when he was manager that Lautenbach had not been released everyone was surprised, as he had been batted out of the box couple of times, and it was supposed that he had been quietly released. But it seems that he had been given every chance. Even some said that he had not been given a fair show and that Captain Troy would not support him in the field and had told his men not to. Captain Troy played yesterday without an error, and all but two errors were excusable. Captain Troy was the one who had shown every consideration and kindness to Lautenbach and had tried to make pitcher out of him.
 If the New Haven people could have seen the way the New Ravens played ball yester- day they would never think for an instant that the players did not want to support Lautenbach. When every man of the op- posing team has batted around and they start over again and get half way down the
 
 demoralize and discourage any team living But tie New Ravens were not discouraged by this. They even played with more vim in the field than ever. The felders were on the continual trot.
 A word should be said in praise of Week. becker. He probably did as much work yesterday as Murphy has in three games catching Leary. Weckbecker was obliged, from the constant slugging of the ball the BridgeEorts were doing, to stand up behind the bat nearly all the time, as somebody was on the bases. There was not an inning but what he had to stand up.
 Look ct the first inning for the Bridge ports, who were first to the bat. Lautenbach pitched wildly and gave Brown his base on balls McGuirk hit hot one to Brill, who fum bled it. Wilson was thrown out Nun yan hit safely. Jones got his base on balls. Shannon lined hsr out and Lovett flew out to Troy. Then Cox and Cain banged the ball away over to the fence. but they could take no more than two bases, because there were people lined all along and the two captains had agreed that not more than two bases should be taken when the bali was batted into the crowd. Brown the second time got his base on balls. McGuirk and Wilson hit safely and Munyan hit for two bases. Then Jones hit long fly to Mellon.
 Nine runsl With what feelings of joy the New Ravens must have gone to the bat They did not score.
 There was only one inning in which the did not get hit. In the fifth inning Shannon batted fly to Lautenbach. He muffed it and let in two runs, the same as he has done in every game he has yet played with the New Havens.
 The fact of the matter is, there is no use trying to make pitcher out of man when he has not got the stuff in him.
 One of the features of the game was a seemingly impossible one-hand catch by Crowley in right field, which he jumped for, and for which he had to doff his hat, so great was the applause of the spectators. The other feature was the home run by Will son. He batted the ball over the center field fence and it was lost.
 If the New Ravens had had any kind of a pitcher they could have had the best of a chance for beating the Bridgeports second time, as Brown was hit rather hard at times.
 The following is the score, which tells the whole story